Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 7/16 x 9 7/8 inches (8.7 x 25.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with blue ink, over graphite, lower left: "10. PM. Febr. 10. 1867 Ibreem a sketch done under extreme difficulty--by a Quarter Moon outside, on a Bagarozza (404)"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.214
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sky | evening | water | desert | landscape
Associated Places:
Africa | Egypt | Nubia | Qasr Ibrim | Nubia
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear, Moment to Moment (IKON Gallery, 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-13)Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 97, no. 98, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)